Vegan Street Food and More Waterfront Shacks

Discount Hub in Bayers Lake will open this week “Grand Opening” on the 6th, they already have one location in Burnside on John Savage.

If you have been to PEI, then you have likely been to one of How Bazaar‘s 6 locations. Well, now they are moving in beside Freak Lunchbox on Barrington.

The Canteen on Portland will open it’s next door take out and cafe in June called Little C

Benny’s Burgers will be bringing vegan street food to the front of the old library on Spring Garden in a few weeks.

The Clyde St NSLC closed yesterday for good; it was the last of the old-style stores in town. Customer can now be serviced by the NSLC Express which opened in the front of Park Lane, The Port a couple of blocks away and a new full sized store will be opening in the parking lot of the Queen St Sobeys in June

The shacks on the Halifax Waterfront have been moved further south by the Beer Garden and Waterfront Warehouse. All the vendors are returning, and a couple more will be added including Deep Sea Donuts, The Cake Lady, Chowder House by Murphy’s and the second location for Cows.

Dollarama now accepts credit cards, doesn’t seem very dollar like.

The Greco and Greco Fish & Chips is now open in Sackville, where Beaverbank and Sackville Dr meet.

Two interesting out of town mall things:
Dixie Outlet Mall in Mississauga now offers a 3100 sq ft space in the mall for events, meetings or pop-up shops for FREE
Upper Canada Mall in Newmarket is taking 40k sqft of an empty Target and turning it into a 25 vendor hybrid of a food court and farmers market.

The Lunenburg Makery has moved to beautiful new larger space beside their original space on Lincoln St

Valley Drive-in opens this weekend. If you never have, it’s a great community run old-fashioned drive-in in Coldbrook complete with Lions Club using the profits in the community.

I should just add a new section called Superstore because I have few related SS things. Like this less than comforting sign at Portland St.

Their debit/credit system went offline last Sunday fro over 12 hours.
And Loblaws met with the province this week to lobby for them to start selling wine in stores. After recent rollouts in Ontario and New Brunswick.

And amazingly a woman who didn’t know she was pregnant got a surprise when she delivered a baby in the restroom at the Bayers Lake Superstore this week.